weighted
Americanadjective
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having additional weight.
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burdened.
weighted with sorrow.
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adjusted or adapted to a representative value, especially in determining the value of a legislator's vote as proportionate to the population of that legislator's constituency.
Other Word Forms
- self-weighted adjective
- weightedly adverb
- weightedness noun
Etymology
Origin of weighted
Example Sentences
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Scrum-half Jeremy Fernandez took the ball from a scrum and broke down the blind side before putting a perfectly weighted kick behind the Saints defence for winger Ambadiang to race onto and score.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
So far this year, he’s converted a total of 1.65 million shares into common stock at a weighted average price of $9.63, and sold 1.65 million shares at a weighted-average price of $92.07.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
Since the 1980s the economy has grown less weighted in heavy industry, and more weighted in technology, which has brought structurally higher margins.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
“We’ve been adding defensive equity positions, meaning they’re focused on dividend growth or weighted by fundamentals rather than capitalizations,” Hollstein says.
From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026
Polybotes jabbed his trident and swung his weighted net, but Scipio was almost as nimble as Arion.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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